"Oh my god! Romee, explain this instant!" Adee bursted out just as I took a seat at our usual table in the cafeteria.
I rolled my eyes heavenwards and clashed at K's eyes throwing me this 'told-you-look'. But instead of starting the explanation ay iginala ko ang aking paningin sa cafeteria.
Adee groaned. "Can you believe this!? She's more into finding the guy agad instead of explaining things to us first." She pointed.
"Well, you can't blame her for being like that. If you are to be whipped by that kind of a heck of a guy I'll be like her too!" Scarlet exclaimed.
Agad naman napako ang aking paningin sa may entrance ng cafeteria. My eyes pinned on him. His hands were tucked inside his pocket and when my eyes drifted on his face I gasped. Nasa akin na nakatuon ang mga mata nito and with the way he gazes at me. Heat crawled into my cheeks. I bet it's red as hell.
Kanina lang after I introduced him to my friends ay sabay narin kami naglakad papunta sa aming classroom. Kaya hindi na nakapagtanong sila Adee at tahimik lang din na sumunod sa paglalakad at humiwalay din pagkatapos.
All eyes were on us and even though sanay na ako sa mga tingin na nakukuha ko sa mga tao. It was weird feeling like it was my first time getting people's attention.
"Rome!" Tawag sa akin nila K na siyang nagpabalik din sa akin sa katinuan.
Agad ko naman iniwas ang aking paningin kay Ean. I look at my friends only finding them all looking at me.
"He's here! So daya." Adee groaned.
"Fast talk niyo nalang!" Sabi ni K saka tumawa.
"Oy! Game!" Scarlet giggled while munching some of the cookies she brought.
"Kayo na ba? Oo o hindi?"
Gulat na napatingin naman kami kay Riley na siyang unang bumato sa akin ng tanong. Wow, she's curious as hell din. Totally didn't expect that. Riley is the kind of girl who barely bother on anything. Kaya you can't blame us gaping at her right now!
She raised her right brow. Saka ko lang napagtanto na ako pala iyong tinatanong niya!
"No!" I answered defensively and they all retorted a chorus of 'ooows?"
"Hindi nga!" Ulit ko.
"Then ba't kayo sabay earlier?" Scarlet asked tilting her head.
I scruched my nose. "Sabay lang mag-on na agad?"
Ganyan na ba talaga ngayon? Just because people saw something not usual they'll assume something was up. Hindi ba pwedeng friends lang? Hindi ba pwedeng baka nadaanan ka lang sa daan kaya sinabay ka na rin. Hmm.. that's clearly stupid. I'm not poor, hatid-sundo ako everyday. Anak ako ng may-ari ng school. Stupid lang talaga ang mag-iisip ng iniisip ko ngayon.
Let's just stick to the 'maybe friends lang' diba.
"Is he going to seat with you?" Biglaang tanong ni Scarlet while looking at someone passed me.
I turned my head to look at Ean. He was walking with his two friends. Iyong palagi niyang kasama. Nasa gilid lang siya ng dalawa habang ang mga ito ay nag-uusap. Naka-linya na sila to get foods. His back facing us.
"Probably not." I shrugged my shoulder before glancing at my foods and began eating it.
Hindi ko alam pero bigla nalang ako napanghinaan ng loob. I can't help but feel sad about it. Now that we're back in our real worlds things might change but still there are also things that's best to stay in its place.
Ang oa man pero feeling ko nakatali kami. Iyong gusto namin gumalaw ng walang problema pero di namin magawa kasi may komukontrol sa amin. I'm not afraid to be judge and criticize by others. Heck, I can even do shits if I feel like to. Magawa ko lang ang gusto ko. And that's me being real.
But then the problem here is I don't even know why I'm feeling like this!
The rest of the time we spend talking different stuff, whatever goes into our mind. And obviously, Ean didn't seat with me. Which made me more ewan kaya itinuon ko nalang ang aking buong atensyon sa kanila Adee. Naisip ko rin na he has friends hindi naman pwedeng dumikit nalang siya sa akin whenever he gets the time to. Like me, I can't just walk away from my friends and stay beside him just because something is going on between us. That'll be unfair on my friends part, same goes for his friends.
"There she goes again.."
Napatingin naman ako kay Adee nang mapairap ito bigla. She barely rolls her eyes and whenever she did that then something must have gone sore in here eyes. Dahil curious ako ay nilingon ko kung saan nakatuon ang kanyang mga mata.
At awtomatikong umarko ang aking kanang kilay. Sa table kung saan nakaupo si Ean together with his friends ay nakatayo ang isang babae sa gilid niya. She was fidgeting her fingers while staring at him while Ean was looking down at something. My eyes moved and found what he has been gazing down. It was a tupperware. Anong laman niyan? And who the heck is she? I've never seen her before.
The girl was not tall but she's also not that short. But I can tell that I'm taller than her with a few inches. Her curly brown hair fell on her back. She's curvy and just seeing the side of her face, as much as I hate to admit it. This girl is pretty but I'm beautiful so what is she doing with my.. my man. Ha!
"We don't really care about what she's been doing lately, but now that something is clearly going on between you and that president guy.. now I wanna sugod her." Adee said.
"Who is she?" I asked.
"Arianna Ridgins." Sagot ni Scarlet.
"Bago iyan dito! Late enrollee. Di mo na naabutan kasi pumasok iyan nung wala ka na." K said.
Nakatingin pa rin ako sa babae. Her lips slowly formed a smile. Mas lalo siyang gumanda. She look so innocent and maybe she is innocent. Something I am not. Pagbaling ko ng tingin kay Ean I already know why she was smiling so brightly.
Ean was already eating the food from the tupperware. I couldn't see what's inside it. It was also so small siguro bite size lang cause Ean pops it inside his mouth. Nasarapan kaya siya? Is he gonna admire her now? Bakit ba kasi siya binibigyan ng babaeng iyan ng ganyan!
"She's been pursuing Ean ever since she got here. You gotta watch that girl, Rome." Riley said this time.
